“Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.” SocialMemoriesComputerEnginesOur MemoriesSearch Engine Author:Clive Thompson
“The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.” SocialMemoriesGrowingCenturyAbuseWorkersScandalPsychiatryTherapistsSocial WorkerCounselorMania Book:Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher Source: Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher
“Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.” PeopleReasonJobsSocialMemoriesLossCommonEconomicLonelinessReturnDatingIncludingIllnessDivorceCommon SensePsychologicalBoredomSlipsPromotionIdeologicalExhaustionBankruptcyMemory LossSingle People Author:Linda Sunshine
“Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.” SelfSocialCommunityMemoriesPracticeModernInformationConcernObviousAvailableTraditionalOrthodoxHolocaustPreservationContinuitySelf PreservationMembership Author:Noah Feldman
“...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.” SocialFeltMemoriesPoorCompassionVisionDressesRoseWorkersCaughtRememberedBranchesFenceCurvesSocial WorkThornsSymbolismSocial WorkerClutchRaggedRose BushDetaining Author:Albion Fellows Bacon